What is most likely on board the Borealis is same-dimension portal technology, like the Portal Gun, but on a much larger scale--to compete with inter-dimensional portal technology developed at Black Mesa. In HL2 we learn that the Combine can only open portals to other dimensions, and that the only localized teleport they had was the one at Nova Prospekt most likely developed by Breen, the late Admin of Black Mesa, and made functional by Mossman. This teleporter is destroyed as Gordon and Alyx escape, leaving the Combine without this technology yet again. At the end of Half-Life 2 we see Breen bargaining for his life with the Advisors, and despite his position on Earth being made void by the rebellion, the Advisors accept to teleport him back to their homeworld and give him a surrogate body. Why do this when he has no value any more as "leader" of Earth? Because of his knowledge of teleportation technology. It's the same reason Eli and Mossman are captured instead of outright killed to eliminate the leadership of the resistance: because of their knowledge of same-universe portal technology. That's why the Combine are after the Borealis, because it contains Aperture Science's portal technology, something the Combine can absorb and exploit to no end. In Half-Life: Opposing Force the G-Man re-arms the nuclear bomb planted by the spec ops and destroys the entirety of Black Mesa and all physical traces of its technology. Eli is full aware that the Combine cannot be allowed to get their hands on this, and wants the ship destroyed. But of course this is not in G-Man's plans, so he arranges for Eli's death so that the Human resistance will have no specific command from their leader to destroy the portal technology. Speaking of G-Man, it's obvious that he and his employers are attempting to orchestrate the downfall of the Combine, mainly the Psychic Advisor ruling caste. This could be because of some conflict between the "Employers" and the Combine, or merely that as psychic beings, they are competing with another. Either way, G-man sets up the events of Half-Life 1 to lure the Combine to Earth, and then in Half-Life 2 he sets up the events to destroy the Citadel and trap Advisors on Earth. I think it is likely the G-Man and the "Employers" are using Humans and Earth to destroy the Combine and that the portal technology on the Borealis will aid them to that effect. Whether if that's for the good of the universe, or for themselves, is another matter entirely.
Just image if on the ending of the episode three (if it ever gets released) you just wake up - Gordon is just a security guard at Black Mesa and it was all a dream,fantasy.
So if the technology onboard Borealis allowed about same powers as Gman and his employers - could it be that they are themselves related to Aperture Science? What if they are (ex) employees of Aperture Science, perhaps those who were on the ship when it malfunctioned? They eventually learned how to stabilize it and realized they have the power to control anything and thus no longer need to work for anyone, and began doing what they want. Ofcourse, this creates questions like "Why would Gman then want Borealis to be discovered?". Still, something to think about.
Make a theory on the resonance cascade, or if not that VG TI talk about I guess. I find it one of the most interesting things in the half life timeline. Also if you were going to make it talk about the seven hour war and the combine take over of earth. That would be a awesome video. Please think about it
gman brought a crystal in and made a contract with eli. eli tested it and it created a resonance cascade so the combine could cross through zen and into earth
Perhaps G-Man actually works for Aperture or is/was a member of Aperture. This is obviously just a conjecture, but it would seem that he has a vested interest when it comes to Borealis...
i dont' think it matters if half life and portal goes with this. it's a great explanation, and vision. also stargate continuum had a ship (that looked alot like the borealis ) with a star gate on it, get stranded in the arctic. the people at valve are very creative, and cutting edge.. it's great to see their imaginations unleashed in these games.
+OWL I've had to stop thinking about it because its so painful to me that the series probably won't get a further iteration. People always say that the next game has to be a ground breaker like the first two but i just want to know what happens next. The half life games are super fun but the story, characters and atmosphere are what make the series so great to me.
+pixelgaming460 There is no reason to blame Valve for not making a Half-Life 3. Don't get me wrong I want it, but from a business standpoint it isn't the best investment. They make a disgusting amount of money for Steam, Dota, and CS:GO that making an expensive single player game just doesn't seem worth it for them when they can instead focus their time on games that will give a continuous stream of income.
I have to correct you about the "multiverse". Interdimensional and Multiversal are similar things, dimensions are planes of existence, Universes exist WITHIN dimensions. The Combine are a multiversal/interdimensional empire. You are right about the Multiverse theory and how insignificant changes create a new timeline or universe, most likely in the 3rd dimension as well, but that's how the G-man can see all that, because he's a being capable of experiencing higher dimensions than the 3rd, that's how he can see the multiverse and the ramifications of events. Earth and Xen aren't dimensions, they're worlds, world's CAN'T be dimensions, worlds are IN dimensions, it's like saying Earth is the 3rd dimension, Earth is IN the 3rd dimension, but not only that, it's in the 1st and 2nd dimensions too, probably 4th and 5th and so forth too, but we can't perceive anything above the 3rd dimension for obvious reasons. Opening portals BETWEEN dimensions to other worlds and other universes is what the Combine already does, what the combine CAN'T do is opening INTRAdimensional portals, portals within the same dimension, like the ones aperture science did, that's probably why they want the Borealis, the Combine can't teleport inside earth, they have to travel the old fashion way, in a straight line from point A to point B. So having the ability to instantly move within the same dimension is a priceless advantage.
remember in old aperture in that one test when cave johnson mentions that "this test may contain trace amounts of time travel", and he says not to interact with yourself if you see yourself in the test, because it will destroy all time, past and future? i always thought it was always a seemingly random detail and never really made sense, and i never really thought much of it, but it seems to make sense now and tyler mcvicker from vnn is saying the half-life: alyx may involve time travel (there might be two voice actors for alyx in the game, hinting at a younger and older version of alyx, and valve is recommending that you play episode 2 before you play HLA, suggesting that you will find out what eli was going to tell gordon at the end of episode 2, or might be suggesting something else, that is just speculation). does this also mean that the borealis will be involved in HLA? edit: in your video about caroline and the gman you mentioned that she might have made a deal with the gman to get revenge on aperture science. what if eli made a deal with the gman, or what he was going to tell gordon at the end of episode 2 was somehow related to what was on the borealis? oh my, this is so much to take in, but i'm so excited.
I believe that the BorealisContains teleportation this is the reason for the boy I was teleporting and I believe that doing that might create another residents cascade in might’ve even caused a bit of it
What if the borealis in that world is the borealis from another universe... The borealis in the Half life universe could be the borealis from another, paralell universe since they may have researched the same things there, did the same tests and ended up with their borealis in the Half Life universe... while the original one is still gone... That would mean under the line its still the same ship... but from another universe... which is just mind twisting if that would be the case.
It was actually an alternate aperture that was doing this, not our own that we see in the half life and portal games. I think the borealis is what our aperture was going to use to do this but obviously it didn’t work out and it teleported away. I think this might be because the scientists in the borealis somehow found out about the combine invasion before it happened and choose to try and stop them from finding the ship while they still had power over it. This caused the ship to be teleported into the arctic where they hoped it would go undiscovered. Either that or gman did this to stop the combine from using it, both of these explanations cover rat man screaming about how the ship was stolen. Now, it could also be black Mesa who tried to steal the ship but ended up getting it fucked but I doubt that since breen would have probably already given it to the combine or at least tried to find it faster by the events of hl2
In 1 of the videos Cave Johnson say that machines and underground structures are made by creatures in other universe paralel earth they planted them the plans and later come to steal it so i think they got that multiverse thing under control. Borealis does have teleporting ability but i think that is not why combine and Gman want it so bad
In half life 3,the borealis was planned to have went into the combine’e original dimension and crashed into the core of their overworld likely making them unable to oppose wide spread riots across the multiverse
I kind of think that Valve is going to release a game with Half Life and Portal combined from a different characters point of view. Idk maybe some different character finds the borealis, gets some technology that is CRAZY powerful and wins the entire war himself/ herself while everyone just sits there watching. And then they would find out G-man is apart of the Combine trying to lore Gordan to his side, so he/ she would kill G-Man, take Gordan as a person to fight with, and they are just these two people with crazy powerful skills and they locate the Combine Empire and find out that they want everyone dead because the Combine Empire wants to use their planet for reproducing their kind and keeping themselves alive because their planet is going to self destruct because... idk I should work for Valve and just do this myself.
I have a feeling... HL3 is going to be taking a tiny bit of a Horror approach... Half life 2 Beta used to have a "mission" to the Borealis and take in consideration: Half life 2 beta is literally a fucking horror game, it's no doubt a lot of the Leaked Stuff will be seen in HL3 Urban legends are creepy, but it's what makes them hyping! :D
By the time When Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance reaches borealis, the Combine got absorbed by Anunnaki empire(which don't just have better technologies, they also have better teleportation too) then there's *7 hour war* on steroids where Gordon Freeman being last surviving resistance drives him to join protags of Ani-toonspiracy
I think Gman teleported the Borialis tothe artic so no one could find it and he could use it for his bidding. Update: Maybe the combine found it (Started out as humans) and they did an offer with the gman and gave him access to the borialis and really what the gman wants is the borealis for himself and combine wiped out. Gordan Freeman is doing exactly what he wants. Also it would explain the combine visors in the concept art.
@@MrHatman26 -- Yes, it's true that Doug Rattmann had paranoid schizophrenia, and that he was obviously off his medication when he was trapped inside Aperture** - HOWEVER!: Not only was Doug Rattmann very intelligent all across the board (pay close attention to his murals), but he also was adept in technical skills. He canonically found out Cave Johnson's account login and password somehow (Doug scrawled it in one of his dens in the first game; if I'm not mistaken, it was behind the maintenance wall in test chamber 17?) -- meaning that Doug Rattmann could have actually known a LOT more than you might think, given his (unmedicated) mental illness and even his job description (he was a software engineer for Aperture's image formatting, for those who didn't know). Don't be so quick to underestimate him. ;) ** lol of course he would have still understood words?? Paranoid schizophrenia doesn't change your level of intelligence; it (very basically) affects your ability to differentiate reality from your imagination, and the illness has varying severity levels (please look the illness up for yourselves sometime, because this is a massive derailment from the topic and I am not a doctor).
@@ember-brandt Sorry to say, but I didn't mean that the schizophrenia made him dumb, I meant that it may make him beleive things that aren't true as it makes you see, hear and feel thimgs that do not exist. However, after two years, I understand Doug Ratmann more as a character and believe that he is smart enough to not let the schizophrenia lie to him. Also, thanks for responding to a two year old comment! It was a nice surprise 😃
WOW I'M REALLY SATISFIED. on portal 2 in a rattman's den if you stick on wall with a graffiti you can hear him!he has schyzophrenia and he talks like crazy but some people heard him say "help Mr Johnson,the Borealis is gone,they stole it"so could Black mesa steal the Borealis?
When/if they find the Borealis in Hl3, they need to destroy it. Eli has had contact with the Gman. Considering your past theories, he can tell the future. Eli never got to tell Gordon everything before *spoilers* he died. Some of his last words were "DESTROY THAT SHIP" It obviously must be important.
Your theory could be true, until it's impossible. Multiverse is just annouced from a trailer of portal 2 by creating workshop maps, it could be hint. The other thing was to destroy it, maybe so no aliens comes from the portal to earth. The other thing was the Borealis to use against it, the Boreals maybe hosts the last universe portals. Xen Advisor, they are from Xen they are owner of it. Just someone asked what is the borealis, I reasearched and found one possible solution. "How would you destroy a big ship? I just think you could destroy the Borealis whats inside in. Advisors protect that shit, and they can kill you with physic not only with their tounge, they normaly try to steal information by eating their brain and saving it to their big brain. Found it at graphics (unused animations)" It's impossible to find it out whats inside, there was a mod Borealis but they didn't continue it because they even didn't know what they do. And you won't be everytime outside in the antartic, there will be a Combine Plasma Turret shooting at you.
Quick thought, maybe, just like in Black Mesa, Gman caused these events. Maybe his plan, if you go even further back, was to trap the borealis in the ice, so that 30 years down the line, Gordon could use it to *insert whatever Gman's genius plan is*..?
I Have A Theory The Cores I saw Somebody Plaing Portal and Push a Button that The deck with cores put in the borealis I think if they found this they can use the Cores intellegence to find a way to defeat the combine and Yes maybe The old portal gun is in the Somewhere the portal gun that they use to call the tunneling device maybe Gordon can Use the device to put it on a Machine and Send the combine away or Desintegrate them cause I think if the Portal gun is Shot on People or anything leaving the Portal Ball will desintegrate them cause the portal will open in the human body so it desintegrates the body to make a portal I think Ahhh. new theory they will use the tunneling device to Make a Large Tunnel and Use it to crush them with the Borealis or They will use the Device To Make A Black Hole and My meaning is shooting a Portal in the Ground and one in the moon LOL Thats why Eli want it destroy He Knows whats in The Borealis The Tunneling device the Larger Version of the Portal Gun cause Maybe If the y make a portal to the Moon well maybe they will be suck in there too.
Ok wait a sec..... Im just going to take a long gusse........ Wouldn't the ship it self come out on the two games that might come out...... Portal 3 and Hl 3/ Hl 2.3. How i see it is the whole ship his actly a rope and the games are the pullers they both pull till they get and and im just gusseing thats when we see the ship Plus Gordon meets the portal girl (Idk her name). Sorry about all the grammer.
I know this is really old, but the combine don't travel between dimensions, they travel between universes, the combine didn't have access to xen, because xen is required for local teleportation, which is what the combine want, that's why the combine where hunting the nihalanth and the other xen forces like vortiguants, they wanted to uncover the secrets of local (in universe) teleportation, the combine only have non-local (multiverse) teleportation, which in the half life universe is seemingly easier to discover. The combine want the local teleportation to travel quickly, the combine synths are likely immortal, which his how they conquer universes, by waiting for billions of years to find a planet, but the combine are so immensely old that they have been doing this for an incomprehensible amount of years. but if they got local teleportation, then they could speed up the process, saving them octillions of years of space travel. it is a misconception that the combine invaded earth for its resources, they invaded earth for the teleportation, the portal storms from the black mesa incident attracted their attention because it was a large instance of local teleportation, the resources where only a bonus, if the combine really wanted resources, they could just harness them from asteroids and comets, not only would they get more resources than if they invaded earth, but it would save them the trouble of invading a hostile species like humans, no matter how easy it is for the combine to crush us. the combine did use the portal storms to their advantage though, by going through them to access xen, and then going through another to access earth. that is how they invaded earth without having to wait billions of years to travel there by spacecraft.
Very interesting, I really liked your theory but there is a slight problem with it. Portal lore does say there is a multiverse but that does not mean it has to be a 'Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics' type of multiverse. It could be just that there are an infinite amount of linear universes. It does not mess up your theory but does take away from the idea that the g-man's employers know every outcome of every decision.
You confused parallel worlds theory with multiverse theory. multiverse theory states that there are different universes with completely different things going on in them, different planets, different stars, different galaxies. parallel worlds theory states that decisions and actions cause universes to splinter into parallel worlds. both theories conflict with each other too much to coexist.
I'm pretty sure that, in Half-Life, a Dimension and a Universe are the same thing. The Combine is an empire that is spreading across the multiverse. At the end of Half-Life 2, Breen even says that the Combine are from another universe.
+Daniel Samsel If they are the same thing, then it's possible the situation is such that the Combine DO have the G-Man's powers, but to a much much lesser extent, to the point where they can only use it to travel between universes. This would mean that whatever is on the Borealis unlocks the rest of that power, possibly. The stuff they can't do.
+VG TI I think it could allow them to do both inter-dimensional and local teleportation. Though it is extremely unstable and will likely cause some major problems in Half-Life 3. As to the Combine having the same power as G-man (to a lesser extent) that's debatable. They more have the technology to do it; though it's extremely complicated and requires a lot of power. Meanwhile, G-man has the natural ability to do it without technology. I guess they can both be considered power... they're just two different kinds.
Local teleportation IS their weak point after all, something the resistance was researching with Kleiner's teleporter. They were on the right track with Mossman helping them, but things seem to have gone astray, and now they're hunting down the Borealis, an Aperture Science vessel. Aperture specialized in local teleportation. Now you're thinking with portals. It's all speculation of course, but once again...it's something only HL3 can answer, and who knows where that is.
Maybe the borealis got teleported to the gman universe and the gman and some of his employers found it and tested the teleportation device on the borealis and then the gman and his employers got teleported to the half life universe
You said that G-man and his employers (I'll refer to them just as G-man) have the power to see the timelines and 'enter' the one which benefits them the most (quoting your words that G-man have a similar power of going through universes, as the one supposedly left on Borealis). I have a little counter-argument against the powers of G-man. Supposedly they chose the best universe, in an infinite number of universes, and this is the one they choose. A universe where Xen, Nihilanth, Vortigaunts, Gordon Freeman all co-exist. And yes, their plans goes rather smoothly at the start. Nihilanth is dead, they have control of the overworld Xen, Combine invade Earth through Xen, Earth is under Combine control, deploy Freeman, his appearance fires up the Rebel Uprising even more and... that's the point where the smoothness of plans falls apart. Either they did not consider Vortigaunts being a threat (and as you stated in the theory, they (G-man) know the destiny of each universe, so it's a little strange), or they don't have such powers/multiverse does not exist. A counter-argument on this could be that they can see the destiny of the universe without their interference, so after they enter the universe, they take a role of watchers and guides, so that they wouldn't change the flow of the universe too much. Think about this now, what would have happened if Vortigaunts did not help Alyx and Gordon survive? Both of them are dead from the explosion at the top of the Citadel, so they do not get inside of it again, to restabilize the core, and Citadel gets destroyed half a day earlier. Combine were evacuating during that time, let's say at a rate of about 1 advisor pod per two minutes (this is a really rough estimate, I should play episode one again and take note of that), so during the half day that Gordon and Alyx stabilized the core reactor to save their own asses, they saved around 360 Advisors. I can't for the best of me remember, if Episode One was happening early in the morning, or evening, because of this there could be a drastic difference between the advisors that managed to evacuate before Gordon regained consiousness. If it's early in the morning, well, there couldn't have been more than a hundred of advisors that evacuated. If it's the evening, well, it's roughly around four to five hundred. The point I am trying to make is that, the most likely plan of G-man was to cause as much damage as they could to the combine, not destroy them. G-man let Combine into Xen knowing (let's say they saw this all along) that they would invade earth, build huge-ass structures and use those structures to cause insane damage, but because Vortigaunts intervened, the plan was foiled and they had to move to something different There are tons and tons of things that people could adress this 'theory' on (G-man interacted with loads of people, for example, so they aren't exactly just spectators), and I want to hear you guys out. So try to debunk this the best you can. c:
+Zombine50 The Vortigaunt thing has been pointed out, and from the looks of things, it seems that the Vortigaunts have powers that can slip by G-Man's abilities. He can't forsee their actions, for whatever reason, and this is why they got the jump on him when they extracted Gordon and Alyx. Chances are him and his employers are planning on taking countermeasures against the Vortigaunts, having already slipped through them to talk to Alyx in Episode 2. G-Man has interacted with people, as many have mentioned him, but it seems to me like people aren't aware of him unless he has a need for them (i.e. unless he actually seeks them out and interacts with them).
You make some very valid points here. I like it :) I never really thought of the borealis much and while I admit that traveling through dimensions does seen a little bit far fetched to me but I wouldn't be surprised if something like that was to happen. I'm intrigued so far. I'll watch a few videos and maaaaybe thing about subscribing ;) good job mate
Johnnytherobotontheledge Not really... it can travel to other universes but not alternate earth sort of universes. Each universe it travels to has its own galaxies and astronomical features. Carbon stars for example are more common in one of the universes the combine invaded.
My theory is that the Borealis didn't leave this universe and then come back, but rather, this: In the canon Half-Life Universe, the device worked. This led to the Perpetual Testing. However, in another universe, they did something differently, and it failed. This took it to a different universe. This just so happened to be the one we play in.
I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart.
I really like your theory, its almost a much more detailed version of my theory on why we dont have a Half Life 3. As we see in Dr. Mossmans message in HL2 Ep: 2. The Borealis is apart of Aperture Laboratories, and also obviously had a part in the Portal experiments we know today as the Portal games. Like you said, seeing as the Borealis went missing after an obvious failed experiment, it had to been teleported into a whole another universe and somehow got back into the Arctics. But thats not entirely my point. We see the Aperture Logo on the side of the Borealis, that tells us who has played Portal, "Hey! That HAS something to do with Aperture!" We also know that before Eli died at the end of Ep: 2 (Spoilers) He told Gordon to make sure the Borealis was destroyed, which we know it wasnt because he didnt like the Portal project, but because he didnt want another Black Mesa incident! So that tells us now, that somewhere along the line, Gordon failed to destroy the Borealis, Why he didnt is not clear though. He couldve died in the process, or maybe, because we've seen such a relationship slowly grow between Gordon and Alyx, that he decided to stay with Alyx and help her get through her fathers death. Because she just wouldnt be able to go on with Gordon after just watching her father die and she couldnt do anything to stop it. So yeah, Gordon failed to destroy the Borealis, which lead into further investigation of the Portal project, which in the end brought us to the games we know now as Portal 1 and Portal 2! So seeing as the Portal games are out and Gordon failed to destroy the Borealis, Valve doesnt have a story to carry on in a 3rd establishment, and if they think up of a brand new stroy, they're going to have an extremely upset fanbase because we've been waiting 12 years now on a very big cliff hanger from Ep: 2 so we're all going to be very upset if they just throw in a completely different story and not continuing the story they have yet to really finish, yet under the circumstances, they actually have, just in a seperate game, with a separate plot, with different characters yet still connected to the Half Life franchise!
I mean this could be true the multiverse could be sued for time travel because if you can travel to other universes you can time travel to. (my theory)
I think you have the wrong idea about worlds, dimensions, and universes are. Worlds and dimensions are not the same thing. There are four known dimensions but according to string theory there are ten. The four that we can measure are length, height, depth, and time (x, y, z, t). The Combine travel within the three visible dimensions of length, height, and depth, but they can't travel through the fourth dimension. That being said, the other six dimensions involve different universes and from there it's all really confusing. So yeah, the multiverse theory is a concept within string theory which deals with the fifth and sixth dimensions. Think of it like coordinates on a six dimensional graph where we're free to move around three dimensions and constantly moving along the fourth dimension. The Combine and Chell from Portal can jump to different points within those three dimensions, but while traveling through time you're able to either move freely through time like how you move through the three dimension or you can jump from one coordinate to another and just continue moving forward constantly from there. I don't think I needed to say all that, but I enjoyed explaining. You also might know all of this already. Oh well :P Your videos are awesome anyway.
Creepers and Keyblades Yes, that's what I meant, but I did not know about that! Thank you. The Combine are constrained to the first three. Acquiring the tech on the Borealis would give them access to the fourth, and possibly the fifth and sixth if it's exactly like the G-Man's abilities. If G-Man is a concept such as fate, this is why he can do such things. Thanks for your thoughts!
I've watched both theory videos, and I pretty on board with what you say. I definitely think gman has something to do with the borealis. Also, which half life song is used in this video?
Glad to hear it! :) The song is actually Self Esteem Fund from Portal! I used it just because it fit the mood of the video best, and made it easier to hear me.
The multiverse theory has a rather scary side to it. In one timeline, Gordon died in Black Mesa the secound the anti-matter spectrometer (i think thats what it was) started malfunctioning. In another he didn't took the G-Mans offer and died then and in a whole nother timeline he maybe didn't even make it to the transit system and died in a car crash on the way to work. Whats so scary about is the thought of this working with the real world. In another timeline, i might've decided not to write this comment, or maybe i just smashed my monitor seeing this video for no good reason. With timelines anything is possible, really.
An infinite number of possibilities, but as far as the G-Man's plans go, only certain timelines can be ideal if he wants to wipe out the Combine. Throwing the multiverse into things can make stuff quite interesting (and sometimes scary) indeed.
Very unlikely, but what if gman is Gordon from the future and he used the device on the Borealis to travel in time and foresee consequences and whatever. After all, the name gman is similar to Gordon Freeman (G)ordon Free(man). Perhaps he finds something to make him speak, as Gordon is mute in the game and gman speaks like he is new to speaking
i have a question: how does aperture travel through the multiverse, the borealis maybe? the long fall boots are combine tech, did aperture finde the combine before the took over the planet? if the borealis can travel through time, is it possible that the G-man employers found the borealis and made a smaller version of it so it can be used on humans? like the g-man?
+Julius Klein If this theory is right, then that's what the Borealis can supposedly do (or at least, what's on it). The long fall boots aren't Combine tech, but simply an Aperture invention for testing. And for that last point, going with the theories I'm sticking with, it's likely they wouldn't need the tech on the Borealis. It can use whatever powers they have, possibly on a smaller scale. I think what they want is for the Resistance to get a hold of it and use it against the Combine. They probably have a plan for dealing with the Resistance afterwards too.
Why did valve gave up on such good games and all they care about is money and dota, half life 3 would be SUCH a huge success which will they will earn millions by people, half life 2 story is perfect
There are several valve employees whove said its been being worked on, the story is finished, and theres been bits of hl3 files in other valve games. Its just a matter of who knows when
in my opinion valve is looking for these kind of videos so that they know how execly to end the franchise, and I like this video the most and while playing hl2 i didn't think so deeply in to the game
@1.06 there is a photo with scientists with the one face not being shown...but! the guy on the right bottom line is looking like g man...or is it just me ?
Definitely not just you. It's assumed the guy with the scratched out face is Breen, and the guy at the bottom right does indeed eerily look like the G-Man. What could it mean..?
TwoManGames All they say is a teleportation experiment. They don't say what kind of teleportation they were doing, only that it INVOLVES teleportation. Therefore, teleporting to other universes isn't that un-feasible, and Aperture HAS researched that field too.
i think we're going a bit too far to assume that paralel universes and paralel dimensions aren't the same thing in the Half Life universe. The combine can't teleport in space within the same universe, but they can teleport between different dimension in the same space, that is esentially equivalent to teleporting to another universe.
The destiny explanation for Gman and his employers seems a little too deus ex machina to me. The writing so far in the series is too good for them to employ a cheap device like that. I'd figure that aperture did manage to open a portal within the multiverse, and this attracted the attention of the Gman. The Borealis would have had crew right? If they made the trip and perhaps gained some information about the forces that be, then they would have to be eliminated. How to do that? Dump them in the arctic. Perhaps the Combine did make a contract after discovering similar multiverse tech that they back out of, thus your retaliation idea could be accurate. Perhaps because of the combine's advanced technology they have a counter for whatever the employers are using and as such the Gman needs to use alternate means to destroy them, rather than say controlling an adviser (which it appears he can do) to cut the head off the snake on the combine home-world. Just my two cents.
The borealis probably has the code for half life 3. And since valve can't find the borealis, half life 3 can't be made.
+Dolphinzz There goes my mind, it's been blown.
+Dolphinzz There goes my mind, it's been blown.
Half life 3 was my dream since episode 2 ended
+pixelgaming460 Its been everyone's dream.
Hl3 has been the biggest joke of the Internet since episode 2 came out.
What is most likely on board the Borealis is same-dimension portal technology, like the Portal Gun, but on a much larger scale--to compete with inter-dimensional portal technology developed at Black Mesa.
In HL2 we learn that the Combine can only open portals to other dimensions, and that the only localized teleport they had was the one at Nova Prospekt most likely developed by Breen, the late Admin of Black Mesa, and made functional by Mossman. This teleporter is destroyed as Gordon and Alyx escape, leaving the Combine without this technology yet again.
At the end of Half-Life 2 we see Breen bargaining for his life with the Advisors, and despite his position on Earth being made void by the rebellion, the Advisors accept to teleport him back to their homeworld and give him a surrogate body. Why do this when he has no value any more as "leader" of Earth? Because of his knowledge of teleportation technology. It's the same reason Eli and Mossman are captured instead of outright killed to eliminate the leadership of the resistance: because of their knowledge of same-universe portal technology.
That's why the Combine are after the Borealis, because it contains Aperture Science's portal technology, something the Combine can absorb and exploit to no end. In Half-Life: Opposing Force the G-Man re-arms the nuclear bomb planted by the spec ops and destroys the entirety of Black Mesa and all physical traces of its technology. Eli is full aware that the Combine cannot be allowed to get their hands on this, and wants the ship destroyed. But of course this is not in G-Man's plans, so he arranges for Eli's death so that the Human resistance will have no specific command from their leader to destroy the portal technology.
Speaking of G-Man, it's obvious that he and his employers are attempting to orchestrate the downfall of the Combine, mainly the Psychic Advisor ruling caste. This could be because of some conflict between the "Employers" and the Combine, or merely that as psychic beings, they are competing with another. Either way, G-man sets up the events of Half-Life 1 to lure the Combine to Earth, and then in Half-Life 2 he sets up the events to destroy the Citadel and trap Advisors on Earth. I think it is likely the G-Man and the "Employers" are using Humans and Earth to destroy the Combine and that the portal technology on the Borealis will aid them to that effect. Whether if that's for the good of the universe, or for themselves, is another matter entirely.
Just image if on the ending of the episode three (if it ever gets released) you just wake up - Gordon is just a security guard at Black Mesa and it was all a dream,fantasy.
So if the technology onboard Borealis allowed about same powers as Gman and his employers - could it be that they are themselves related to Aperture Science? What if they are (ex) employees of Aperture Science, perhaps those who were on the ship when it malfunctioned? They eventually learned how to stabilize it and realized they have the power to control anything and thus no longer need to work for anyone, and began doing what they want.
Ofcourse, this creates questions like "Why would Gman then want Borealis to be discovered?". Still, something to think about.
the G man is not human
Make a theory on the resonance cascade, or if not that VG TI talk about I guess. I find it one of the most interesting things in the half life timeline. Also if you were going to make it talk about the seven hour war and the combine take over of earth. That would be a awesome video. Please think about it
gman brought a crystal in and made a contract with eli. eli tested it and it created a resonance cascade so the combine could cross through zen and into earth
I think the boreal is is a reference to the real life ship experiment the Philadelphia as they both had vanished and never returned in the same place
i think a lot of ships have vanished in our history lol
@@BranGrizz Philadelphia experiment is also related to ship teleporting
Perhaps G-Man actually works for Aperture or is/was a member of Aperture. This is obviously just a conjecture, but it would seem that he has a vested interest when it comes to Borealis...
You should have more than 595 subscribers, you are making good theories, keep it up bro ! ;)
i dont' think it matters if half life and portal goes with this.
it's a great explanation, and vision.
also stargate continuum had a ship (that looked alot like the borealis ) with a star gate on it, get stranded in the arctic.
the people at valve are very creative,
and cutting edge.. it's great to see their imaginations unleashed in these games.
"Even more Half Life Theories"
Me getting this video randomly reccomended in 2024: "Yeah so...not THAT much has changed..."
Holy fuck you predicted ALL the epistle 3
If only half life 3 was going to come out :/ valve gave up on it. Its on stand-by for a long time still.
+OWL I've stopped thinking about it altogether until something legit comes up.
+OWL I've had to stop thinking about it because its so painful to me that the series probably won't get a further iteration. People always say that the next game has to be a ground breaker like the first two but i just want to know what happens next. The half life games are super fun but the story, characters and atmosphere are what make the series so great to me.
Agreed. I don't care if it's ground breaking or not. The story is unfinished, and that's the worst part.
Fuck valve them lazy ignorant assholes blame gabe for being such a lazy blinded ass he just wont listen to the ideas!
+pixelgaming460 There is no reason to blame Valve for not making a Half-Life 3. Don't get me wrong I want it, but from a business standpoint it isn't the best investment. They make a disgusting amount of money for Steam, Dota, and CS:GO that making an expensive single player game just doesn't seem worth it for them when they can instead focus their time on games that will give a continuous stream of income.
I have to correct you about the "multiverse".
Interdimensional and Multiversal are similar things, dimensions are planes of existence, Universes exist WITHIN dimensions. The Combine are a multiversal/interdimensional empire.
You are right about the Multiverse theory and how insignificant changes create a new timeline or universe, most likely in the 3rd dimension as well, but that's how the G-man can see all that, because he's a being capable of experiencing higher dimensions than the 3rd, that's how he can see the multiverse and the ramifications of events.
Earth and Xen aren't dimensions, they're worlds, world's CAN'T be dimensions, worlds are IN dimensions, it's like saying Earth is the 3rd dimension, Earth is IN the 3rd dimension, but not only that, it's in the 1st and 2nd dimensions too, probably 4th and 5th and so forth too, but we can't perceive anything above the 3rd dimension for obvious reasons.
Opening portals BETWEEN dimensions to other worlds and other universes is what the Combine already does, what the combine CAN'T do is opening INTRAdimensional portals, portals within the same dimension, like the ones aperture science did, that's probably why they want the Borealis, the Combine can't teleport inside earth, they have to travel the old fashion way, in a straight line from point A to point B.
So having the ability to instantly move within the same dimension is a priceless advantage.
Oh no, he knows too much! QUICK, DEPLOY THE CUBE!
remember in old aperture in that one test when cave johnson mentions that "this test may contain trace amounts of time travel", and he says not to interact with yourself if you see yourself in the test, because it will destroy all time, past and future? i always thought it was always a seemingly random detail and never really made sense, and i never really thought much of it, but it seems to make sense now and tyler mcvicker from vnn is saying the half-life: alyx may involve time travel (there might be two voice actors for alyx in the game, hinting at a younger and older version of alyx, and valve is recommending that you play episode 2 before you play HLA, suggesting that you will find out what eli was going to tell gordon at the end of episode 2, or might be suggesting something else, that is just speculation). does this also mean that the borealis will be involved in HLA?
edit: in your video about caroline and the gman you mentioned that she might have made a deal with the gman to get revenge on aperture science. what if eli made a deal with the gman, or what he was going to tell gordon at the end of episode 2 was somehow related to what was on the borealis?
oh my, this is so much to take in, but i'm so excited.
I believe that the BorealisContains teleportation this is the reason for the boy I was teleporting and I believe that doing that might create another residents cascade in might’ve even caused a bit of it
What if the borealis in that world is the borealis from another universe...
The borealis in the Half life universe could be the borealis from another, paralell universe since they may have researched the same things there, did the same tests and ended up with their borealis in the Half Life universe... while the original one is still gone...
That would mean under the line its still the same ship... but from another universe... which is just mind twisting if that would be the case.
Which begs the question: Where exactly is the original?
That's an interesting idea!
The Combine would LOVE to have a portal gun
The whole Borealis thing sounds like the Philadelphia experiment.
+Harald Segebrecht Lots of eerie similarities.
no
black mesa and aperture are in the same universe
yeah maybe he said it i dont know im not watching this i gotta do stuff
A game's universe and an astronomical universe differ. The game's universe is just the events and people that occur and exist.
It was actually an alternate aperture that was doing this, not our own that we see in the half life and portal games. I think the borealis is what our aperture was going to use to do this but obviously it didn’t work out and it teleported away.
I think this might be because the scientists in the borealis somehow found out about the combine invasion before it happened and choose to try and stop them from finding the ship while they still had power over it. This caused the ship to be teleported into the arctic where they hoped it would go undiscovered.
Either that or gman did this to stop the combine from using it, both of these explanations cover rat man screaming about how the ship was stolen.
Now, it could also be black Mesa who tried to steal the ship but ended up getting it fucked but I doubt that since breen would have probably already given it to the combine or at least tried to find it faster by the events of hl2
In 1 of the videos Cave Johnson say that machines and underground structures are made by creatures in other universe
paralel earth they planted them the plans and later come to steal it so i think they got that multiverse thing under control. Borealis does have teleporting ability but i think that is not why combine and Gman want it so bad
One thing you forgot is that in the trailer for portal 2 they litlerly went to different dimensions.
In half life 3,the borealis was planned to have went into the combine’e original dimension and crashed into the core of their overworld likely making them unable to oppose wide spread riots across the multiverse
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U have earned a sub
I kind of think that Valve is going to release a game with Half Life and Portal combined from a different characters point of view. Idk maybe some different character finds the borealis, gets some technology that is CRAZY powerful and wins the entire war himself/ herself while everyone just sits there watching. And then they would find out G-man is apart of the Combine trying to lore Gordan to his side, so he/ she would kill G-Man, take Gordan as a person to fight with, and they are just these two people with crazy powerful skills and they locate the Combine Empire and find out that they want everyone dead because the Combine Empire wants to use their planet for reproducing their kind and keeping themselves alive because their planet is going to self destruct because... idk I should work for Valve and just do this myself.
I have a feeling... HL3 is going to be taking a tiny bit of a Horror approach...
Half life 2 Beta used to have a "mission" to the Borealis and take in consideration:
Half life 2 beta is literally a fucking horror game, it's no doubt a lot of the Leaked Stuff will be seen in HL3
Urban legends are creepy, but it's what makes them hyping! :D
By the time When Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance reaches borealis, the Combine got absorbed by Anunnaki empire(which don't just have better technologies, they also have better teleportation too) then there's *7 hour war* on steroids where Gordon Freeman being last surviving resistance drives him to join protags of Ani-toonspiracy
I think Gman teleported the Borialis tothe artic so no one could find it and he could use it for his bidding.
Update:
Maybe the combine found it (Started out as humans) and they did an offer with the gman and gave him access to the borialis and really what the gman wants is the borealis for himself and combine wiped out. Gordan Freeman is doing exactly what he wants. Also it would explain the combine visors in the concept art.
VG TI You believe in the Multiverse too couse I now there's A Multiverse we just cannot Explain It cause We cannot exit our own Universe
if the combine found Cave's lemons then they would make lemon grenade=lemongrenades=lemon-nade
Ly Cao They'll burn our houses down...
WITH THE LEMONS.
+Pierce Washington make life!
You're absolutely right!
Black mesa stole the borealis RatMan said the ship was stolen
Broku The Legendary Saiyan i had the same thought
Broku The Legendary Saiyan Yes, but RatMan was schizophrenic, so can we really trust his word?
MrHatman26 I mean he could still make out words and he had that one pill left and he knows aperture science like the back of he's neck
@@MrHatman26 -- Yes, it's true that Doug Rattmann had paranoid schizophrenia, and that he was obviously off his medication when he was trapped inside Aperture** - HOWEVER!:
Not only was Doug Rattmann very intelligent all across the board (pay close attention to his murals), but he also was adept in technical skills. He canonically found out Cave Johnson's account login and password somehow (Doug scrawled it in one of his dens in the first game; if I'm not mistaken, it was behind the maintenance wall in test chamber 17?) -- meaning that Doug Rattmann could have actually known a LOT more than you might think, given his (unmedicated) mental illness and even his job description (he was a software engineer for Aperture's image formatting, for those who didn't know). Don't be so quick to underestimate him. ;)
** lol of course he would have still understood words?? Paranoid schizophrenia doesn't change your level of intelligence; it (very basically) affects your ability to differentiate reality from your imagination, and the illness has varying severity levels (please look the illness up for yourselves sometime, because this is a massive derailment from the topic and I am not a doctor).
@@ember-brandt Sorry to say, but I didn't mean that the schizophrenia made him dumb, I meant that it may make him beleive things that aren't true as it makes you see, hear and feel thimgs that do not exist.
However, after two years, I understand Doug Ratmann more as a character and believe that he is smart enough to not let the schizophrenia lie to him.
Also, thanks for responding to a two year old comment! It was a nice surprise 😃
WOW I'M REALLY SATISFIED. on portal 2 in a rattman's den if you stick on wall with a graffiti you can hear him!he has schyzophrenia and he talks like crazy but some people heard him say "help Mr Johnson,the Borealis is gone,they stole it"so could Black mesa steal the Borealis?
When/if they find the Borealis in Hl3, they need to destroy it. Eli has had contact with the Gman. Considering your past theories, he can tell the future. Eli never got to tell Gordon everything before *spoilers* he died. Some of his last words were "DESTROY THAT SHIP" It obviously must be important.
Your theory could be true, until it's impossible. Multiverse is just annouced from a trailer of portal 2 by creating workshop maps, it could be hint. The other thing was to destroy it, maybe so no aliens comes from the portal to earth.
The other thing was the Borealis to use against it, the Boreals maybe hosts the last universe portals.
Xen Advisor, they are from Xen they are owner of it. Just someone asked what is the borealis, I reasearched and found one possible solution.
"How would you destroy a big ship? I just think you could destroy the Borealis whats inside in. Advisors protect that shit, and they can kill you with physic not only with their tounge, they normaly try to steal information by eating their brain and saving it to their big brain. Found it at graphics (unused animations)"
It's impossible to find it out whats inside, there was a mod Borealis but they didn't continue it because they even didn't know what they do. And you won't be everytime outside in the antartic, there will be a Combine Plasma Turret shooting at you.
i think the Borealis had a giant portal gun on so it could go places
Quick thought, maybe, just like in Black Mesa, Gman caused these events. Maybe his plan, if you go even further back, was to trap the borealis in the ice, so that 30 years down the line, Gordon could use it to *insert whatever Gman's genius plan is*..?
I Have A Theory The Cores I saw Somebody Plaing Portal and Push a Button that The deck with cores put in the borealis I think if they found this they can use the Cores intellegence to find a way to defeat the combine and Yes maybe The old portal gun is in the Somewhere the portal gun that they use to call the tunneling device maybe Gordon can Use the device to put it on a Machine and Send the combine away or Desintegrate them cause I think if the Portal gun is Shot on People or anything leaving the Portal Ball will desintegrate them cause the portal will open in the human body so it desintegrates the body to make a portal I think Ahhh. new theory they will use the tunneling device to Make a Large Tunnel and Use it to crush them with the Borealis or They will use the Device To Make A Black Hole and My meaning is shooting a Portal in the Ground and one in the moon LOL Thats why Eli want it destroy He Knows whats in The Borealis The Tunneling device the Larger Version of the Portal Gun cause Maybe If the y make a portal to the Moon well maybe they will be suck in there too.
Ok wait a sec..... Im just going to take a long gusse........ Wouldn't the ship it self come out on the two games that might come out...... Portal 3 and Hl 3/ Hl 2.3. How i see it is the whole ship his actly a rope and the games are the pullers they both pull till they get and and im just gusseing thats when we see the ship Plus Gordon meets the portal girl (Idk her name). Sorry about all the grammer.
I know this is really old, but the combine don't travel between dimensions, they travel between universes, the combine didn't have access to xen, because xen is required for local teleportation, which is what the combine want, that's why the combine where hunting the nihalanth and the other xen forces like vortiguants, they wanted to uncover the secrets of local (in universe) teleportation, the combine only have non-local (multiverse) teleportation, which in the half life universe is seemingly easier to discover. The combine want the local teleportation to travel quickly, the combine synths are likely immortal, which his how they conquer universes, by waiting for billions of years to find a planet, but the combine are so immensely old that they have been doing this for an incomprehensible amount of years. but if they got local teleportation, then they could speed up the process, saving them octillions of years of space travel. it is a misconception that the combine invaded earth for its resources, they invaded earth for the teleportation, the portal storms from the black mesa incident attracted their attention because it was a large instance of local teleportation, the resources where only a bonus, if the combine really wanted resources, they could just harness them from asteroids and comets, not only would they get more resources than if they invaded earth, but it would save them the trouble of invading a hostile species like humans, no matter how easy it is for the combine to crush us. the combine did use the portal storms to their advantage though, by going through them to access xen, and then going through another to access earth. that is how they invaded earth without having to wait billions of years to travel there by spacecraft.
Very interesting, I really liked your theory but there is a slight problem with it. Portal lore does say there is a multiverse but that does not mean it has to be a 'Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics' type of multiverse. It could be just that there are an infinite amount of linear universes. It does not mess up your theory but does take away from the idea that the g-man's employers know every outcome of every decision.
You confused parallel worlds theory with multiverse theory. multiverse theory states that there are different universes with completely different things going on in them, different planets, different stars, different galaxies. parallel worlds theory states that decisions and actions cause universes to splinter into parallel worlds. both theories conflict with each other too much to coexist.
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Considering this came out before epistle 3, and epistle 3 (tho not canon) basically confirms it, I'm willing to accept this theory
I'm pretty sure that, in Half-Life, a Dimension and a Universe are the same thing. The Combine is an empire that is spreading across the multiverse. At the end of Half-Life 2, Breen even says that the Combine are from another universe.
+Daniel Samsel Also, they are nicknamed the Universal Union.
+Daniel Samsel If they are the same thing, then it's possible the situation is such that the Combine DO have the G-Man's powers, but to a much much lesser extent, to the point where they can only use it to travel between universes. This would mean that whatever is on the Borealis unlocks the rest of that power, possibly. The stuff they can't do.
+VG TI I think it could allow them to do both inter-dimensional and local teleportation. Though it is extremely unstable and will likely cause some major problems in Half-Life 3. As to the Combine having the same power as G-man (to a lesser extent) that's debatable. They more have the technology to do it; though it's extremely complicated and requires a lot of power. Meanwhile, G-man has the natural ability to do it without technology. I guess they can both be considered power... they're just two different kinds.
Local teleportation IS their weak point after all, something the resistance was researching with Kleiner's teleporter. They were on the right track with Mossman helping them, but things seem to have gone astray, and now they're hunting down the Borealis, an Aperture Science vessel. Aperture specialized in local teleportation. Now you're thinking with portals.
It's all speculation of course, but once again...it's something only HL3 can answer, and who knows where that is.
I Think i have heard that they can get the borealis to teleport anywhere they want. +VG TI
Thats true
the idea of the story got so complex.. that they abort the story, because it only will got more questions than answears... this my idea only...
Maybe the borealis got teleported to the gman universe and the gman and some of his employers found it and tested the teleportation device on the borealis and then the gman and his employers got teleported to the half life universe
I think I read that half life 3 was announced from a leak yesterday no joke!!
0:46 if half life 3 ever comes out, I can imagine once Gordon goes to the Borealis, he will see phases of other mods for the half-life series.
Have you read the episode 3 leak? here it is: www.polygon.com/2017/8/25/16202006/half-life-2-episode-3-plot-mark-laidlaw-valve
whats werid with portal and half life that Gordon and chell they both have orange suit's
I like to say half life story is better
Since there trying to kill the combine
The wrong Man in the right direction can destroy all of the data's in the Borealis.
What if, what's on the Borealis is one of the G-Man's employers?
What if cave Johnson is the gman and he uses the universe gun to see the outcomes of the decisions?
e dod in Borealis i think there are weapons ol somthin like that no rely think about that
I can see a fight gman vs gordan if gordan get's to the borealis and frees his chains
You said that G-man and his employers (I'll refer to them just as G-man) have the power to see the timelines and 'enter' the one which benefits them the most (quoting your words that G-man have a similar power of going through universes, as the one supposedly left on Borealis). I have a little counter-argument against the powers of G-man. Supposedly they chose the best universe, in an infinite number of universes, and this is the one they choose. A universe where Xen, Nihilanth, Vortigaunts, Gordon Freeman all co-exist. And yes, their plans goes rather smoothly at the start. Nihilanth is dead, they have control of the overworld Xen, Combine invade Earth through Xen, Earth is under Combine control, deploy Freeman, his appearance fires up the Rebel Uprising even more and... that's the point where the smoothness of plans falls apart. Either they did not consider Vortigaunts being a threat (and as you stated in the theory, they (G-man) know the destiny of each universe, so it's a little strange), or they don't have such powers/multiverse does not exist.
A counter-argument on this could be that they can see the destiny of the universe without their interference, so after they enter the universe, they take a role of watchers and guides, so that they wouldn't change the flow of the universe too much. Think about this now, what would have happened if Vortigaunts did not help Alyx and Gordon survive? Both of them are dead from the explosion at the top of the Citadel, so they do not get inside of it again, to restabilize the core, and Citadel gets destroyed half a day earlier.
Combine were evacuating during that time, let's say at a rate of about 1 advisor pod per two minutes (this is a really rough estimate, I should play episode one again and take note of that), so during the half day that Gordon and Alyx stabilized the core reactor to save their own asses, they saved around 360 Advisors. I can't for the best of me remember, if Episode One was happening early in the morning, or evening, because of this there could be a drastic difference between the advisors that managed to evacuate before Gordon regained consiousness. If it's early in the morning, well, there couldn't have been more than a hundred of advisors that evacuated. If it's the evening, well, it's roughly around four to five hundred.
The point I am trying to make is that, the most likely plan of G-man was to cause as much damage as they could to the combine, not destroy them. G-man let Combine into Xen knowing (let's say they saw this all along) that they would invade earth, build huge-ass structures and use those structures to cause insane damage, but because Vortigaunts intervened, the plan was foiled and they had to move to something different
There are tons and tons of things that people could adress this 'theory' on (G-man interacted with loads of people, for example, so they aren't exactly just spectators), and I want to hear you guys out. So try to debunk this the best you can. c:
+Zombine50 The Vortigaunt thing has been pointed out, and from the looks of things, it seems that the Vortigaunts have powers that can slip by G-Man's abilities. He can't forsee their actions, for whatever reason, and this is why they got the jump on him when they extracted Gordon and Alyx. Chances are him and his employers are planning on taking countermeasures against the Vortigaunts, having already slipped through them to talk to Alyx in Episode 2.
G-Man has interacted with people, as many have mentioned him, but it seems to me like people aren't aware of him unless he has a need for them (i.e. unless he actually seeks them out and interacts with them).
You make some very valid points here. I like it :) I never really thought of the borealis much and while I admit that traveling through dimensions does seen a little bit far fetched to me but I wouldn't be surprised if something like that was to happen. I'm intrigued so far. I'll watch a few videos and maaaaybe thing about subscribing ;) good job mate
Thanks to both of you. :D Especially for even taking the time to watch my video.
Welp you where Right again, Bravo !
Johnnytherobotontheledge Not really... it can travel to other universes but not alternate earth sort of universes. Each universe it travels to has its own galaxies and astronomical features. Carbon stars for example are more common in one of the universes the combine invaded.
My theory is that the Borealis didn't leave this universe and then come back, but rather, this:
In the canon Half-Life Universe, the device worked. This led to the Perpetual Testing. However, in another universe, they did something differently, and it failed. This took it to a different universe. This just so happened to be the one we play in.
Team_6543: Eric This reminds me of that one theory saying that Portal 2 potentially takes place in an alternate universe from the Half-Life series.
VG TI Can you link me to that theory?
Can't, I'm afraid. I just remember reading it on a random GameFAQ's topic but I can't seem to find it.
+Team_6543: Eric The problem with your theory, however, is that Kleiner and Eli say themselves in Episode Two that the Borealis had disappeared.
good theory
I was left alone, riding the weaponized luxury liner into the heart of a Combine world. An immense light blazed. I caught a cosmic view of a brilliantly glittering Dyson sphere. The vastness of the Combine’s power, the futility of our struggle, blossomed briefly in my awareness. I saw everything. Mainly I saw how the Borealis, our most powerful weapon, would register as less than a fizzling matchhead as it blew itself apart.
I really like your theory, its almost a much more detailed version of my theory on why we dont have a Half Life 3. As we see in Dr. Mossmans message in HL2 Ep: 2. The Borealis is apart of Aperture Laboratories, and also obviously had a part in the Portal experiments we know today as the Portal games. Like you said, seeing as the Borealis went missing after an obvious failed experiment, it had to been teleported into a whole another universe and somehow got back into the Arctics. But thats not entirely my point. We see the Aperture Logo on the side of the Borealis, that tells us who has played Portal, "Hey! That HAS something to do with Aperture!" We also know that before Eli died at the end of Ep: 2 (Spoilers) He told Gordon to make sure the Borealis was destroyed, which we know it wasnt because he didnt like the Portal project, but because he didnt want another Black Mesa incident! So that tells us now, that somewhere along the line, Gordon failed to destroy the Borealis, Why he didnt is not clear though. He couldve died in the process, or maybe, because we've seen such a relationship slowly grow between Gordon and Alyx, that he decided to stay with Alyx and help her get through her fathers death. Because she just wouldnt be able to go on with Gordon after just watching her father die and she couldnt do anything to stop it. So yeah, Gordon failed to destroy the Borealis, which lead into further investigation of the Portal project, which in the end brought us to the games we know now as Portal 1 and Portal 2! So seeing as the Portal games are out and Gordon failed to destroy the Borealis, Valve doesnt have a story to carry on in a 3rd establishment, and if they think up of a brand new stroy, they're going to have an extremely upset fanbase because we've been waiting 12 years now on a very big cliff hanger from Ep: 2 so we're all going to be very upset if they just throw in a completely different story and not continuing the story they have yet to really finish, yet under the circumstances, they actually have, just in a seperate game, with a separate plot, with different characters yet still connected to the Half Life franchise!
keep doing videos man
Your theories reminds me of the plot for the TV show Fringe. I am inclined to believe them.
Especially the ones dealing with Half-Life.
Hey mate love your videos keep it up :)
but why did elii get killed for wanting to destroy the boralis? what would of happend if they DID dastroy the boryalis???
The Combine take interest in aquiring the Borealis for themselves, so likely because of keeping him quiet.
I mean this could be true
the multiverse could be sued for time travel because if you can travel to other universes you can time travel to. (my theory)
I agree!
Could Aperture's portal technology have opened a door to Gman, who then brought the Xen Crystal to Black Mesa?
I think you have the wrong idea about worlds, dimensions, and universes are. Worlds and dimensions are not the same thing. There are four known dimensions but according to string theory there are ten. The four that we can measure are length, height, depth, and time (x, y, z, t). The Combine travel within the three visible dimensions of length, height, and depth, but they can't travel through the fourth dimension. That being said, the other six dimensions involve different universes and from there it's all really confusing.
So yeah, the multiverse theory is a concept within string theory which deals with the fifth and sixth dimensions. Think of it like coordinates on a six dimensional graph where we're free to move around three dimensions and constantly moving along the fourth dimension. The Combine and Chell from Portal can jump to different points within those three dimensions, but while traveling through time you're able to either move freely through time like how you move through the three dimension or you can jump from one coordinate to another and just continue moving forward constantly from there.
I don't think I needed to say all that, but I enjoyed explaining. You also might know all of this already. Oh well :P Your videos are awesome anyway.
Creepers and Keyblades Oh! And by your theory, the G-man is a being who can move freely within all ten dimensions, or at least the first six.
Creepers and Keyblades Yes, that's what I meant, but I did not know about that! Thank you.
The Combine are constrained to the first three. Acquiring the tech on the Borealis would give them access to the fourth, and possibly the fifth and sixth if it's exactly like the G-Man's abilities. If G-Man is a concept such as fate, this is why he can do such things.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Perpetual Testing Initiative is not canon.
I've watched both theory videos, and I pretty on board with what you say. I definitely think gman has something to do with the borealis. Also, which half life song is used in this video?
Glad to hear it! :)
The song is actually Self Esteem Fund from Portal! I used it just because it fit the mood of the video best, and made it easier to hear me.
VG TI Oh ok. I recognized it from somewhere! It definitely fits the mood well.
or portal experiments wich should mean that valve games are in the same universe
The multiverse theory has a rather scary side to it. In one timeline, Gordon died in Black Mesa the secound the anti-matter spectrometer (i think thats what it was) started malfunctioning. In another he didn't took the G-Mans offer and died then and in a whole nother timeline he maybe didn't even make it to the transit system and died in a car crash on the way to work.
Whats so scary about is the thought of this working with the real world.
In another timeline, i might've decided not to write this comment, or maybe i just smashed my monitor seeing this video for no good reason.
With timelines anything is possible, really.
An infinite number of possibilities, but as far as the G-Man's plans go, only certain timelines can be ideal if he wants to wipe out the Combine. Throwing the multiverse into things can make stuff quite interesting (and sometimes scary) indeed.
VG TI Bioshock Infinite definitely proved that alternate universes are awesome
4:19 and up to 4:30: Basically, the combine travel between pocket universes
+BobtheDog /General/Pilot/Hobo/Builder Yup.
Very unlikely, but what if gman is Gordon from the future and he used the device on the Borealis to travel in time and foresee consequences and whatever. After all, the name gman is similar to Gordon Freeman (G)ordon Free(man). Perhaps he finds something to make him speak, as Gordon is mute in the game and gman speaks like he is new to speaking
SuperLemon If this is the case, this begs the question...who are his employers?
Touche
No Gordon is not the G-Man. The G-Man's name is short for Government Man.
And Gordon is not mute he does speak but you can't hear him for immersion purposes.
it will be awnsered just play portal
Imagine the Combine getting their hands in GLaDOS...
+Mr.BoodyPopperz Oh god
This feels like Bioshock Infinite how the twins act like Gman, in all these chaos and ripping through universes just to fix destiny.
Actually, Bioshock Infinite was exactly what I first thought of when I made this video, since it deals with the concept of the Multiverse as well.
VG TI You think Valve would now use this plot idea since Bioshock did it.
I think the Borealis was stolen.
I'm still waiting for Half Life 3! That was 5 years ago ;(
13 Years Ago Was Half Life 2
i have a question: how does aperture travel through the multiverse, the borealis maybe?
the long fall boots are combine tech, did aperture finde the combine before the took over the planet?
if the borealis can travel through time, is it possible that the G-man employers found the borealis and made a smaller version of it so it can be used on humans? like the g-man?
+Julius Klein If this theory is right, then that's what the Borealis can supposedly do (or at least, what's on it).
The long fall boots aren't Combine tech, but simply an Aperture invention for testing.
And for that last point, going with the theories I'm sticking with, it's likely they wouldn't need the tech on the Borealis. It can use whatever powers they have, possibly on a smaller scale. I think what they want is for the Resistance to get a hold of it and use it against the Combine. They probably have a plan for dealing with the Resistance afterwards too.
+VG TI that makes sense to me, i am sure you are right about it, i just said what i thought.
your videos are still great
Thanks! I appreciate your thoughts.
Why did valve gave up on such good games and all they care about is money and dota, half life 3 would be SUCH a huge success which will they will earn millions by people, half life 2 story is perfect
+pixelgaming460 I know right
There are several valve employees whove said its been being worked on, the story is finished, and theres been bits of hl3 files in other valve games. Its just a matter of who knows when
Maxwell hanson If I die before they finish it, I will haunt they shit outta them
Maxwell hanson That is not how valve works, in episode 2 you were supposed to go to the borealis and bring Judith Mossman safe back.
pixelgaming460 But G-Man wouldn't let that happen and the ending broke me forever ;_;
in my opinion valve is looking for these kind of videos so that they know how execly to end the franchise, and I like this video the most and while playing hl2 i didn't think so deeply in to the game
Thanks! I hope Valve takes notice of these kinds of things. Half-Life is a crazy deep series.
@1.06 there is a photo with scientists with the one face not being shown...but! the guy on the right bottom line is looking like g man...or is it just me ?
Definitely not just you. It's assumed the guy with the scratched out face is Breen, and the guy at the bottom right does indeed eerily look like the G-Man. What could it mean..?
VG TI Dude. And the cutseen with gman when he heals alex has him sitting at a desk in black mesa!!!
+VG TI that guy? His name is slick. He was one of the scientists from HL1.
What's the music in this xD
Bobby BKH Self esteem fund
Dude, have you ever played Portal 2? The Borealis was used a boat that could teleport and then it probably teleported in the arctic.
TwoManGames All they say is a teleportation experiment. They don't say what kind of teleportation they were doing, only that it INVOLVES teleportation. Therefore, teleporting to other universes isn't that un-feasible, and Aperture HAS researched that field too.
Im sorry i know its a stupid thing im sahying dude your theory rules its awesome and i follow it but i just sort of went stupid on this one.
No, man, it's all good. Thanks for your thoughts!
Thank you! :D
I THINK U MEAN EP2
Half-Life 3 is inside the borealis!
You may have right! Let's move on!
what about Stephen i herd him on the level of Ravenholm.
Stephen who?
from Half Life opposing force the
118 studios I think you might mean Adrian Shephard, correct? Sadly, he hasn't appeared in any of the Half Life 2 games. AS FAR AS WE KNOW.
What was the music in the video?
Self Esteem Fund, from the Portal soundtrack. :)
Thanks :D
great theory. you are helping to ease the pain of waiting for hl3. thank you.
It's also my way of helping me ease my own pain of waiting. Glad I can help.
If you play the video at 1.25 speed, then it sounds like a normal talking speed.
Time machine
It's a DeLorean, obviously!
i think we're going a bit too far to assume that paralel universes and paralel dimensions aren't the same thing in the Half Life universe.
The combine can't teleport in space within the same universe, but they can teleport between different dimension in the same space, that is esentially equivalent to teleporting to another universe.
awsome
The destiny explanation for Gman and his employers seems a little too deus ex machina to me. The writing so far in the series is too good for them to employ a cheap device like that. I'd figure that aperture did manage to open a portal within the multiverse, and this attracted the attention of the Gman. The Borealis would have had crew right? If they made the trip and perhaps gained some information about the forces that be, then they would have to be eliminated. How to do that? Dump them in the arctic.
Perhaps the Combine did make a contract after discovering similar multiverse tech that they back out of, thus your retaliation idea could be accurate. Perhaps because of the combine's advanced technology they have a counter for whatever the employers are using and as such the Gman needs to use alternate means to destroy them, rather than say controlling an adviser (which it appears he can do) to cut the head off the snake on the combine home-world.
Just my two cents.
"it could have portals that go to different timelines"
sans exploring the arctic area: of i found this cool thing on this abandoned ship